We are pleased to announce Filmmaker, Curator, Artist and all around cool guy, Bryan Konefsky will be presenting TWO shows with Grand Detour as well as doing a Workshop at the NW Film Center.
On Mon. March 14th Bryan will be hosting the workshop titled: Dead Tech Alive at the NW Film Center. http://nwfilm.org/calendar/2011/03/14/deadtechalivew11 Continuing forth on Tuesday March 15, Konefsky will show Happiness is a Warm Projector: Selections from Experiments in Cinema v1-v6 at the historic Hollywood Theater on NE Sandy Boulevard. This program will showcase the highlights from Konefsky’s work as a festival programmer, and will have an admission price of $6. The following evening, he will show a program of his own work at the Grand Detour space in Suite 2020 of the Portland Storage Building. “I LOVE YOU LONG TIME: Bryan Konefsky *the early years* (1998-2010) will combine screenings with a talk and question-and-answer session, and has a suggested admission price of $3-6.
Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of independent experimental media arts through his work as moving image artist, teacher, lecturer and film festival director. He teaches moving image production and critical studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, where he was honored in 2009 with a university-wide Teacher of the Year award. Konefsky is artistic director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation around the world. In 2006, 2007 and 2010 he served as a panelist for the New Mexico Film Office’s New Visions filmmaking awards. He is a member of the board of advisors for the Ann Arbor Film Festival (the oldest experimental festival in the United States), and a guest curator for the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Videofest sponsored by the Dallas Video Association.
